National Art Museum of Catalonia (Museu Nacional d`Art de Catalunya - MNAC) Barcelona

Parc de Montjuic, s/n, Palau Nacional Barcelona , Catalonia, Spain and Canary Islands - Phone: 93-622-0360

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  • Beautiful museum

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    thejeshirecat 4 contributions Brisbane, Australia Dec 15, 2011

    Make sure you have time to see all of it because it's really worth it. The museum is divided into different artistic periods (i.e. Baroque, Romantic, Gothic, Modern etc).

    This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.

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    Day 4: Montjuic

    The Montjuic hill is an amazing place, so we decided to spend the whole day here. First we visited the Miro museum. Joan Miro was an incredible artist and his art, paintings and sculptures really touched us. The Foundation Joan Miro is a museum everyone should visit, so as to get to know modernism at its higher level. Simply incredible!!! Next we …

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    Barcelona and Art

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    Today I explored Barcelona on my own so as to not inflict Art Galleries on the poor husband. Of course as soon as I got to the Museum got a call from Glenn that the landlady had showed up and was Spanishing at him and he didn't know what she was saying. He finally appeased her.

    I went to MNAC, best Gallery in Barcelona. They allowed …

  • 3

    I'll drink me some Montjuic

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    Geddit? Montjuic= "Mountain of the Jews"= Mountain Dew. No?
    Nevermind.

    So again we were back to Barcelona, our overnight stop before flying on to Colombia. We stopped at Montjuic, went to the Placa Espanya (where I saw Spain win the world cup last year). It's amazing.
    Let me say something: the buildings at the top of the plaza? …

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